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| Date: | 03 13 1862 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of the gunboat "Cinncinati" guarding Union approaches to Cairo on the Ohio River. |
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| Description: | Drawing of a section of a completed part of Fort Cairo facing the confluen [sic] of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. |
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| Description: | The "Essex" (New Era) transformed into a gunboat, at anchor. Next to it is a smaller boat. |
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| Description: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
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| Description: | "Comisary [sic] Steamer — Pittsburgh Landing." Steamboat on river near Shiloh, Tennessee. |
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| Description: | People engaged in various activities along the bank of the Mississippi River. There are both men and women and a horse next to the river edge. Trees are cu... |
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| Description: | Preliminary sketch for "Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels". |
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| Description: | Preliminary sketch of Hamburg Landing. Men are carrying items on land. There is a line of boats docked at the rivers edge. |
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| Description: | "Scene on the Raging Tennessee" River. Preliminary sketch of a ship going down the Tennessee River from the vantage point of the deck of the ship. There is... |
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| Description: | A sketch of a steamboat coming down the Tennessee River. Both shorelines are visible and there is another boat in the far distance. |
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| Description: | Preliminary sketch of a distant ship on the river near an outcropping of land. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a ship's steering wheel with river and trees visible through the cabin. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Landscape view of Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory from a nearby hill showing the Fort, the Mississippi river, the countryside, farm buildings and tipis.... |
| Date: | 1609 |
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| Description: | Illustration of an elevated view of a battle between Iroquois tribe and French on the banks of river. The Iroquois are unclothed and armed with bows and ar... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Engraved drawing of Norman Wiard's ice locomotive, Lady Franklin leaving a snowy riverbank and entering the frozen river. The vessel was built, but ... |
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